Villain: Week 23 – Tyson Fury

by George_East on June 19, 2016

Villain of the Week for 2 weeks ago was Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury is obviously a very talented boxer. But sadly he is also a bigot. He has in the past made a series of anti-semitic, misogynistic and homophobic comments. Sadly, despite the controversy around his nomination for BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2015 arising out of such comments, he does not seem to have learned his lesson.

Last month his training camp released a video in which he opined that he expected rape and bestiality to be legalised given the legalisation of ‘formerly taboo’ practices and that: “Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations. Be brainwashed by them all”
On one level it is tragic that someone who has the capacity to be a great model for the travelling community is in the news for all the wrong reasons. However, the reality is that Fury is a bigot who has no place in public life.